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a multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building
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Ghosts on Servers During Updates Can Delay The Process For a Very Long Time #1030

Closed DougLefelhocz closed 4 months ago

DougLefelhocz commented 7 months ago

As some players spend a couple of IRL days as ghosts.

Cordy alludes to the issue elsewhere.

Also, Ru during the update period:

yeah but you know what's really funny? there's a ghost right now.

i'm talking to him now, he'll probably just die

ill exorcise him if he doesn't want to die its a phex user tho

they said okay, there's still some living people who are 40 though, so 20 more mins

TheGeniusPhoenix:

Ok, the ghost is the only person left

Ru chimes in and apparently talking to that ghost wasn't enough:

I exorcised him before I died. maybe there was another ghost?

Some others thought you kicked the ghost.

I could imagine someone getting ghost on their Eve spawn on a low pop server also. Testo has suggested that he or someone else got ghost in a tutorial area also.

Maybe the power of The Computer needs to compel ghosts to go during an update period? If that's possible? Or ghost mode gets disabled a few hours before an update starts?

Tarr-OHOL commented 7 months ago

Jason can literally kill everyone on the server when he wants. He has done it before, and can do it again. So no, if Jason absolutely wants to kill a ghost trying to postpone an update there already exists a solution.

DougLefelhocz commented 6 months ago

Jason can literally kill everyone on the server when he wants. He has done it before, and can do it again. So no, if Jason absolutely wants to kill a ghost trying to postpone an update there already exists a solution.

Sure, he can do that. But, he has to do that manually. If he wants to do that manually any time there's an update which requires server shift, alright. But such a solution doesn't exist until that ghost gets killed off manually. It isn't like he can do a future action in the present.

teliot commented 5 months ago

This might need to be addressed @jasonrohrer image

jasonrohrer commented 5 months ago

Yes, I saw that happening last update, and had to intervene....

I will fix this.

jasonrohrer commented 4 months ago

Probably something like this:

If the server is in shutdown mode, and the only people left are ghosts, they are force-killed.